Mental health ambassadors pledge
We've secured a working partnership with the Mental Health Foundation to deliver a series of workshops for undergraduate students. Find out more about our core aims, what you can expect and what we ask of you in return.
Our pledge
Our core aims and values
We’ll:
- provide a space for peer support and learning around mental health
- offer our workshops on an equal basis to all users regardless of:
- gender
- ethnicity
- disability
- race
- sex
- age
- sexual orientation
- religion
- culture
- provide a preventative approach to managing mental health, by increasing understanding, help-seeking and the use of healthy coping strategies, signposting to additional support and developing support networks among students
- treat you with respect and provide a friendly, professional, and efficient peer-to-peer support service with the aim of helping you to look after your mental health
- listen to you and provide support, advice, and guidance to help improve your mental health. This can include making onward referrals to specialist teams on your behalf to ensure they receive the best support possible.
Our commitment to you
Our committed and fully trained mental health ambassadors work collaboratively with the Mental Health Foundation and the central peer-to-peer team and colleagues across the University so we can:
- provide you with an opportunity to learn more about resources and internal and external support networks to help improve your mental health
- ensure we can support, advise, and guide you in the best possible way
- provide a safe space and an opportunity to discuss how to look after our own and each other’s mental health
Your commitment to us
In order for us to offer relevant, timely and high-quality mental health ambassador workshops, we ask you to:
- attend workshops on time
- provide at least 24 hours notice if you are unable to attend a workshop
- co-operate and engage with mental health ambassadors and fellow attendees at workshops
- treat mental health ambassadors and fellow workshop attendees with courtesy and respect
- consider advice from mental health ambassadors about any suggested referral to other internal or external support services when identified
- Submit feedback on the anonymous online form issued to you at the end of the workshop. This is so we can find out what has worked well and if there is anything we need to do to improve future workshops.